Bird eggs are shown inside a nest built in a gas-fired grill Tuesday in Depew, N.Y. The owner of the grill has decided not to use it until the birds are gone. / Associated Press

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Wednesday will be the warmest day of this week, with a forecast high temperature of 77 degrees.

I wouldnt be surprised if we see 80 degrees, however. Some fair-weather cumulus clouds could form with the heating of the day during the afternoon, but our atmosphere has dried out nicely  there was no fog Wednesday morning, as opposed to the day before  so the day should be very sunny.

High pressure is parked over New England and not likely to move for a few more days yet. We here in Ohio are the beneficiaries of that, as a positively refreshing breeze out of the southeast is the rule for most of this week.

Quite often a stationary high to our east will settle in over Bermuda, which translates to a humid flow out of the southwest here.

It was snowing Wednesday morning from Colorado to Minnesota. Nothing like that will be coming this way. In fact, the stagnant high pressure over New England will keep low pressure to our west until probably Sunday, when were looking at a 50 percent chance of showers.

Now that May has arrived, thoughts of boating on Lake Erie begin to percolate for many people around here. Be aware, however, that the water temperature at the buoy 16 miles northwest of Lorain is still only 47 degrees.

Meanwhile, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast were the highest on record during the second half of last year. Ocean temps there rose to 57.2 degrees, the highest in at least 150 years.

There has been some speculation from climatologists that the worlds oceans are absorbing much of the heat so far during this new era of climate change. These warm temperatures in the Atlantic basin, if they continue, will likely cause lobsters and cold-loving fish to migrate northward.

Below are the weather statistics for Tuesday, April 30, at my location 4 miles north-northwest of Fredericktown, Ohio: